Science and the Vampire

It’s no secret, when it comes to vampires I prefer the magical approach over the scientific one. I think a certain degree of horror is lost when one insists on giving a scientific explanation for everything. In the case of the vampire, once science is dragged into the explanation, it ceases to be a force of demonic origin and becomes simply something from the animal world. A natural occurrence. Humans might have to deal with it, but it doesn’t conjure the same kind of supernatural horror that...